Have students analyze geographic data and election return data by making a graph of “Purple America” in Java so that they can develop the tools to visualize their own data through coding.

In this visualization, each county is colored red, blue, or green corresponding to votes received by Republican, Democratic, and Independent candidates, respectively.
This assignment requires no starter code, only the geographic and election return data.
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